The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-06-04

eastward, then taking In the South' anu
now Is engaged In ploughing the poh''ca
ground In the great and mighty west
His speeches In the East we're mainly
directed TO propitiating the money iords
with squintings towards the total stoppagt
Of silver coinage; at the South he under
took 70 " soft sawder the confederate sol
dlers by exalting their prowess In battl'
and honest Though MISTAKEN devotion u
an unhappy cause; 10 congratulate the PEG
ole on the wonderful industrial develop
ment going on among them; and To utte'
the most profuse and extravagant promises
of republican aid by way of protective
Legislation should that party again return
20 power, an outcome he yentured to pre-
dict to be In the very near future.
But It was not until he got into the "grea
and loyal West" that Sherman was able tt
"let himself loose" In a way that gave him
real comfort and eased the constant, yet Sc
long suppressed yearnings Of his throbbinl
heart.
His speech on Wednesday at Springfield
Is his first really untramelled utterance, in
which Is Swallowed forth the full spirit
and snimus of the political contest of 1859
If John Sherman Is selected rs the captain
and leader of the Great Republican Par.
ty." The programme, AS outlined in his
Springfield speech, may he briefly arranged
under three heads lst threshlng over the
old straw about the disloyalty of the demo
cratic party of the North duri'g the war
I'd, threshing over the other pile of old
straw about the unwillngness of the demo
Gratis at the South TO accept the amend.
ments and accord 10 the negrOs full, free
and equal suffrage with the whites; and,
Sd, TO ride the high prot 'Ctve tariff and
encourage home.industry hobby for all it Is
worth
The democrats, when John Sherman has
been duly selected as the republican can.
didate and the ball for 1888 is fairly opened,
are to be again arraigned, as they We're I'D
RaiSeam in every presidential contest since
1865, not only with having been primarily
responsible for the war, the confederates
all having been members of the great dem
Ocratic party, but after the war began the
democrats of the North were cold and
back ward In their support of the war, and
often reprehensibly and "treasonably' op.
posed to It's vigorous prosecution. "The
party" says Mr.. Sherman, gathered in its
fold the Knights of the Golden Circle, the
mob rioters of New York and the bounty
jumpers and shrks; it held reasonable
with the rebel emissaries
on our Canadian border and conveyed in.
telligence to the enemy in the most critical
periods of the war" John Sherman has
the cheek TO reiterate these stale, worn. out,
old lies in the face of his eulogy
on Douglas but three minutes before, &C
that he was but second to
Lincoln in his loyalty and devotion to the
Union, and that In his last public utter
ances at Columbus, Springfield and Chica-
go, he taught his party and his country
the duty of patriotism at that peri!ous hour
Of the nations life" and that the demo
cratic party of the North, who in the pre-
ceding presidential contest had stood by
Douglas against the South to a man, with
equal unanimity accepted his admonition
nj the opening of the war; and during its
whole prosecution Sherman is compelled
to confess that the Northern democratic
masses falsely aud maliciously eXclud.
ing the "leaders y periodically followed
the advice of Douglas and the example of
Logan, "and side by side with the republi
an hosts, fought to preserve the Union"
But these democrats (all except their
eadersD who so periodically fought side
by side with the republican hosts to pre-.
serve the Union," after the war was over,
we're unwilling fully to accept the results
IF the war by compelling the whole people
If the South to submit themselves to be
overslaughed by the negro
'ote and to let all the Southern states there
,y to be ruled entirely by (negro) republi
cans. Sherman forgets to mention that
or ten years, while the republican party
lad full swing, that system was attempted
o be enforced at the South by the bsyonet
md ANONYMOUSLY failed; and that for Is
years afterwards, though the republican
party was still in possession of the Execu-
i've and the control of the army, 1t was I'M
able TO "pr0tect" the negro in his full right
% vote down the whites and republicanise
he South and that it is only since the
party has come into power, but
wo years ago, that Mr.. Sherman Is at
ength able to rejoice that the animosities
legotten by the war between the races at
he South are rapidly and hopefully dying
)ut."
SO with this acknowledgment of the
benign fruits so speedily following at the
south upon the bare Inauguration of com
,lete democratic rule, and his other admis,
ion of the patriotic devotion to the right
# the democratic masses during the war,
We apprehend the democrats will have lit